Thursday, November 29, 2007
republican freakshow
Here are my three top issues for the presidential race:
Health Care: Wages & the standard of living cannot rise until affordable health insurance & care is unhinged from employment & becomes a right. Even corporate America is finally getting the message.
Global warming & sane, long term energy & environmental policies are linked. Until the United States gets real about this & takes an enlightened leadership role, global efforts will remain half-assed, & America remains chained to a lot of repressive oil-producing regimes. & future generations will hate us.
Then we come to immigration, maybe. Not a completely solvable problem, but certainly a controllable one. The compromise is obvious: Liberals have to accept some tough & expensive border protection measures, lines drawn between here & there, before & after; conservatives have to accept the permanent presence of millions of undocumented Hispanics, & document them by offering a fair & reasonable route to citizenship. We can't know who is actually residing in our country if we keep chasing these people into the shadows. They're here to stay. This issue doesn't even fall into clear left/right divisions, contrary to what Repugs would have us believe. but is so loaded with prejudice & cruelty, with codewords & fallacies, that I'd prefer it not be a major issue in this election. Of course, it will be. Without settling anything.
Repugs are obsessed with dark-skinned people, with homosexuals, & microscopic eggs, & Muslims & anyone else who doesn't brag about reading Christian scripture every day; with scape-goating. They make me sick. I know it's hard to go wrong under-estimating the American voter. But those candidates are just so fucking nuts. All of them. Crazy men.
- Iraq
- health care
- global warming
Health Care: Wages & the standard of living cannot rise until affordable health insurance & care is unhinged from employment & becomes a right. Even corporate America is finally getting the message.
Global warming & sane, long term energy & environmental policies are linked. Until the United States gets real about this & takes an enlightened leadership role, global efforts will remain half-assed, & America remains chained to a lot of repressive oil-producing regimes. & future generations will hate us.
Then we come to immigration, maybe. Not a completely solvable problem, but certainly a controllable one. The compromise is obvious: Liberals have to accept some tough & expensive border protection measures, lines drawn between here & there, before & after; conservatives have to accept the permanent presence of millions of undocumented Hispanics, & document them by offering a fair & reasonable route to citizenship. We can't know who is actually residing in our country if we keep chasing these people into the shadows. They're here to stay. This issue doesn't even fall into clear left/right divisions, contrary to what Repugs would have us believe. but is so loaded with prejudice & cruelty, with codewords & fallacies, that I'd prefer it not be a major issue in this election. Of course, it will be. Without settling anything.
Repugs are obsessed with dark-skinned people, with homosexuals, & microscopic eggs, & Muslims & anyone else who doesn't brag about reading Christian scripture every day; with scape-goating. They make me sick. I know it's hard to go wrong under-estimating the American voter. But those candidates are just so fucking nuts. All of them. Crazy men.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Iraq is FUBARed no matter who gets elected President. If we leave, the country becomes the next Afghanistan/Somalia/Sudan, or just a fundamentalist satellite of Iran. If we stay, expect more of the same bad news from the streets of Baghdad. Bush is definitely leaving this problem for his successor.
Ditto with health care. I think both parties are completely in the grips of the medical profession, health insurance and pharmaceutical companies who profit from high prices and will be unable to push through any meaningful reform.
I'm slightly more optimistic on global warming, but unless Al Gore suddenly becomes president, oil & gas, King Coal and the domestic automakers will continue to call the shots on this, although we may see some token, feel-good measures if a Dem ends up in the White House. Addressing climate change has to be tackled on all levels of government, from local planning boards on up to the U.N.
Now you know why people are so enamored with Mexicans, homosexuals and stem cells. They're easier to explain along partisan lines.
Ditto with health care. I think both parties are completely in the grips of the medical profession, health insurance and pharmaceutical companies who profit from high prices and will be unable to push through any meaningful reform.
I'm slightly more optimistic on global warming, but unless Al Gore suddenly becomes president, oil & gas, King Coal and the domestic automakers will continue to call the shots on this, although we may see some token, feel-good measures if a Dem ends up in the White House. Addressing climate change has to be tackled on all levels of government, from local planning boards on up to the U.N.
Now you know why people are so enamored with Mexicans, homosexuals and stem cells. They're easier to explain along partisan lines.
If Al Gore becomes president, we'll all find ourselves driving tobacco-powered cars and granting citizenship to migrant farm workers in Tennessee.
Suzette
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